Network Camera PHP Application

Something I was working on for ages about a month ago is this Network Camera Application. I bought a network camera from http://www.network-camera.co.uk/ a couple of months ago and despised the rather nasty looking interface they’d made for it. Not only that but I couldn’t see a history of static images grabbed from the camera. Fortunately the camera did allow me to upload grabs to my FTP and so it began….

Initially I only started out to show myself a list of 5 images spread 1 minute apart. What happened was a whole web based application fell out of my head/hands, learning new bits of JavaScript and touching VBScript for the first time too. The pages themselves are password protected but anyone with a brain doesn’t really need the password anyway.

Inside the application I demonstrated to myself how to detect if Java is installed and what version, if the ActiveX component for the live view is installed and if not to give the user chance to download and install it, if the user’s browser supports VBScript or not. The one rather massive requirement is that the user has a Javascript enabled browser. Saying that, if they don’t, then best of luck logging in!

I’m VERY proud of this PHP/JavaScript/Java/VBScript application. It’s some of my most involving work to date. I’d appreciate any feedback or comments. If anyone has any questions I’ll happily answer them, once I’ve come back off holiday that is. 😉

Anyhoo, enough waffling, the app! Click here to demo the PHP Camera Application